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Professor of Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Law and European Law

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Personal Details

Professor Christoph Schalast has been a professor for Mergers & Acquisitions and European Integration at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management since September 2002.

Born in 1960, he studied law and political sciences in Giessen, Frankfurt Main and Lausanne in Switzerland. For his practical legal training, he worked for Rasor and Schiedermair (currently Linklaters LL.P.), the European Parliament as well as for the City of Frankfurt’s Property Office. Christoph Schalast attended the postgraduate study programmes of Comparative Law (Droit Compare) at the University of Strasbourg and that of European Integration at the European Institute of Saarbruecken.

After his admission to the Bar, he specialized in M&A at Albert Flad & Schlosshan (currently Mayer Brown LL.P.). In 1995, he established the law firm of Schalast & Partner focusing primarily on M&A/ Banking and Capital Market Law as well as Telecommunications Media / Technology.

Since the early 1990s, Christoph Schalast has counseled various governments in Eastern Europe. In this capacity, he was an active member on legislative commissions in Slovenia, Lithuania, Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia. He currently acts as an expert advisor in German legislative projects, particularly in the areas of Banking and Finance.

In 1997, he was appointed Professor for European and Commercial Law at the University of Wismar. A few years later in 2002, he was appointed Professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management where he set up a Masters Degree program in Mergers & Acquisitions over which he is currently the Academic Director of. In addition to this, he was a lecturer in European Law at the University of Applied Sciences - Frankfurt as well as in Telecommunications Law at the University of Hamburg.

He has since established the area of research in ‘Non-Performing Loans’. Since 2006 he has been the Chair for the Annual NPL Forum and M&A Private Equity Conference. From 2008 until 2012, Christoph Schalast has consistently been nominated by ‘Unicum’ as Professor of the Year.  In 2009 and 2010, he was elected by the Frankfurt School students and alumni as the Professor of Excellence. The Master and Bachelor theses over which he has acted as supervisor, have been honoured with the Leonardo M&A Award and the M&A Science Award.

Christoph Schalast is chairman of the supervisory board of milch & zucker AG, member of the supervisory board of Commerz Real Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Bank für Vermögen AG and Erasmus Schule gGmbH, chairman of the advisory board of the German Loan Purchase and Servicing Association (Bundesvereinigung Kreditankauf und Servicing e.V.) and chairman of Deutsche Kreditmarkt-Standards e.V. Prof. Schalast is on the jury of both the German Journalist Awards and the Corporate Finance Awards of the German Börsenzeitung. Since 2016, he is the successor of Prof. Müller-Stewens (HSG) as the editor of the leading German M&A publication, the M&A Review. Since 2019 he is member of the board of the new legal journal RdZ – Recht der Zahlungsdienste.

He is an accomplished and distinguished attorney and notary in the areas of M&A and Banking & Finance. He has been recommended by JUVE and the Legal 500 Germany. The financial magazine, Wirstchaftswoche ranks him amongst the leading M&A attorneys in Germany. Schalast & Partner received the JUVE award for mid-sized law firms in 2007 and was shortlisted by “The Lawyer” for the European Award “Law Firm of the Year” in 2011 and 2012.


Office hours

during the semester:

Monday 8:30am until 9:30am on appointment (every fortnight)

Room:

A5.06

Contact

Christoph Schalast
Professor of Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Law and European Law

Publications

Scholarly journal articles / Journal articles

Monographs / Contributions to edited volumes

other publications

Courses 2024

Title Programme

Distressed M&A / Post Merger Integration

Bachelor
Gesellschaftsrecht Master

Insolvenz- / Kapitalmarkt- und Europarecht


Master
Private Equity Master
Gesellschafts-, Steuer- und Kartellrecht Master
Take Overs / IPO / Anleihen Master

Due Diligence / Vertragsverhandlungen

Master

Selection Bachelor- and Masterthesis

Further Master Thesis Topics

Post Merger Integration (PMI) Process – A modular approach to develop group-wide guidelines for integrating acquired companies.

Possible content

  • Identification/ Definition of participating business domains/functions/ and parties
  • Identification of Project process structure (e.g. whether lean or waterfall or , etc., and whether time-bound, content-bound, or cost-bound)
  • Communication concept
  • Definition of success criteria and milestones
  • Development of regular weekly and monthly team processes and respective management tools (i.e. Excel)
  • Development of feedback and process evaluations tools